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The Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci once observed that the extent to which structures in society, that is, the public and collective institutions which serve as enforcers of norms and customs, are malleable and open to modification is in many ways determined by what prevails in the culture of that society- the realm of opinion and…

““Industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.” ― Aldous Huxley It’s the general habit of literary reviewers and commentators in general to hail Orwell’s 1984 as a great work of prophecy, in terms of how the modern…